Yemen has a shortage of electricity generation. People demand more power than can be generated by the current facilities. So we have blackouts, seemingly more common these days. How’s this for a laugh, the government wants to pursue nuclear power plants in order to take care of the problem! OMG, even I am scared about that. One look at the infrastructure around the country should be all that it takes to rule that out. There is no way that I would trust this government’s ability to protect against a catastrophic failure… It doesn’t matter, no one world wide will want this to happen and Yemen doesn’t have the wherewithal to fight like Iran is doing. I’m pretty sure that they’ll manage to extort some money out of donor nations as an alternative to nuclear.
This brings up another point. People that want to “fight” global warming need to come up with some sort of alternative energy source. Nuclear would certainly solve the CO2 issue, but there are other complications, especially with governments and situations like Yemen’s. Yemen will most likely install several new oil burning power plants. other nations might go with coal instead. In either case, more CO2 is the result. What is the alternative to these power sources for developing countries? I don’t actually know what the alternatives are, but something will have to come up if these places are to keep improving AND for CO2 emissions to drop. One thing is for sure, these places need electricity, and more of it in the future…